..... ....He sums up the various religious
traditions - not only Christian but Sunnite, Chiite, Druze and all the other
beliefs in that mosaic of faiths which goes to make up the great family
of the Lebanon. Each one can find his own features in the face of Saint
Charbel.
With one of her sons honored in the highest degree of holiness, Lebanon
today is secure in her glory - the glory of people who have endeavored throughout
the centuries of history to endure as a stronghold of the values of the
spirit..... ....

Decree
N. 2385 of 17/1/1924 as amended by law N. 76 of 3/4/1999 ( articles 2, 5, 15,
49 and 85 ) lays down as follows:
The author of a literary or artistic work, by the very fact of authorship, has
absolute right of ownership over the work, without obligation of recourse to
formal procedures . The author will himself enjoy the benefit of exploitation
of his work, and he possesses exclusive rights of publication and of the reproduction
under any form whatsoever. Whether the work in question comes under the public
domain or not those persons will be liable to imprisonment for a period of one
to three years and to fine of between five and fifty million Lebanese pounds,
or to either one of these penalties, who1-will
have appended or caused to be appended a usurped name on a literary or artistic
work;
2-will have fraudulently imitated the signature or trademark adopted by an author,
with a view to deceiving the buyer;
3-will have counterfeited a literary or artistic work;
4-or will have knowingly sold, received, or put on sale or into circulation
a work which is counterfeit or signed with a forged signature.
The punishment will be increased in the event of repetition.